1: yup, they were missing the score entries, my bad.
2: not a mistake
3: don't worry about that, free research is added free regardless, and they're not dummies, they're substitutes. it adds the substitute so that the game still considers that particular race/rank combo as viable unless all possible research knowledge has already been extracted from the specimen.
their cost never comes into any equation, as they are granted by the parent research.
4: sure, couldn't hurt to tidy up a little.